odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) (12/11/89)
I might be messing with some copyrights but, oh well: $ Article 266 of clari.nb.general: $ Path: lindy!shelby!lll-winken!uunet!looking!newsbytes $ From: newsbytes@clarinet.com $ Newsgroups: clari.nb.general $ Subject: Gigatron to Launch Laptop Amiga in March 1990 $ Keywords: Bureau-LON $ Message-ID: <U69e7.1c732c@clarinet> $ Date: 10 Dec 89 09:41:24 GMT $ Lines: 34 $ Approved: cn@clarinet.com $ $ COLOGNE, WEST GERMANY, 1989 DEC 09 (NB) -- Gigatron, one of the $ more innovative West German companies involved in the Amiga $ scene, plans to launch a laptop Amiga at the Cebit computer show $ in Hanover, West Germany, next March. $ $ Preliminary details of the laptop were announced to software $ developers at the Ami-Expo computer show in Cologne, West $ Germany, last month, according to the latest edition of the Amy $ Today online newsletter for the Amiga community, confirmed by $ online news on the West German Bildschirmtext public viewdata $ service. $ $ Two primary editions of the Amiga laptop will be made available $ by Gigatron - an LCD screen version at DM 5,000 ($2,400) and a $ gas plasma version at DM 7,000 ($3,300). Various configurations $ of RAM are planned, along with an internal 2.5 inch hard drive in $ 20, 40 and 100MB capacities. Both versions of the 68000-based $ Amiga laptop come with two non-Zorro slots, which will enable $ add-ins such as a 68020 co-processor, modem or PC bridgeboard to $ be fitted. $ $ Gigatron is reported to have redesigned the Amiga's motherboard $ to compress it into a laptop's casing. This has also enabled the $ Amiga laptop to be fitted with the new graphics chip seen on the $ Amiga A2500/30 machine launched at Comdex Fall last month. $ $ Attempts to contact Gigatron at its West German office as $ Newsbytes went to press were unsuccessful. Industry sources $ suggest that Commodore is likely to welcome Gigatron's $ development of the Amiga, rather than take a fierce stance on $ copyright, as Apple has done when clones of its Macintosh began $ to appear earlier this year. $ $ (Steve Gold/19891209) -- _____________________________________________________________________________ |Jon Granrose |ARPA: odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU jonathan@sco.com | // Only | |Cowell College, UCSC| 74036.3241@compuserve.com |\X/ Amiga!| |Santa Cruz, CA 95064|UUCP:..!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!odin Bitnet:odin@ucscb.bitnet| | "Remember! No matter where you go, there you are." - B. Banzai | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~